Includes a plan to raise taxes on the rich the story of the syrian child refugee who has become a music protege in the u. S. Hello. The head of a u. N. Inquiry looking into alleged war crimes drog the conflict in during the conflict in gaza in 2014 has resigned. He was appointed last august. He has been accused by israel of biased because of consulting work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organization in 2012. I did a legal opinion about the International Criminal court when Palestine Liberation Organization was advising beam on ratifying the roam statute and they asked for an opinion, i delivered it. It was a small consultancy, i do it all the time for governments. What happened in the past when i was sworn in as a commissioner, i took an oath to be an impartial member of the inquiry, and nothing since the commission has began its work suggested anything to the contrary. This is from the past. And they are suggesting that i am behealeden to the palestinian liberation organization.
But i submit to legalism. What i want to talk about is the world that robert kagan and Bret Stephens once that is undergirded by American Power and i think that is the world we all believe has been vastly beneficial for the United States, for canada but for by and large the whole world. It allowed the transformation i talked about are not in america. The question is what is made that possible . I would argue the image you should think about is Franklin Roosevelt after winning decisively in world war ii. Decides he wants to create the United Nations an institution which all countries would be represented and try to make a systematic and institutionalized effort to produce a new kind of Global Politics in which other countries are respected, their voices heard and that is really what the United States has at its core been trying to do since 1945. Its not really because the United States has gone into lots of third world countries and intervened and beaten up people and killed leaders tha
Camp from michigan. Hes retiring at the end of the this year as you all know and were going to lose a tremendous talent in dave camp. But when he got together to take on the most ambitious reform of the tax code that i have seen in my lifetime, he said lets see if we can get the Corporate Income tax rate down to kind of that oecd country average, kind of that World International average. Lets see if we can get in there with everybody else. Thats striking to me because it is the best effort, again, that i have seen in my lifetime, and it was an effort to see if we can be right there in the middle, if we can be mediocre. I dont know when it became true in america that when we set our goals on doing something, our goal is to be kind of like everybody else. Well, thats the way they do it in europe. How it came to be that in america when we decide that we want to make a difference, we look around at what everybody else is doing and say lets be the same. I dont want to be the same. I want to
That World International average. Lets see if we can get in there with everybody else. Thats striking to me. Because it is the best effort again that i have seen in my lifetime. And it was an effort to see if we can be right there in the middle. If we can be mediocre. I dont know when it became true in america that when we set our goals on doing something, our goal is to be kind of like everybody else. Thats the way they do it in europe. How it came to be that in america when we decide that we want to make a difference, we look at what everybody else is doing and lets be the same. I dont want to be the same. I want to lead. I want to lead. What we do with the Corporate Income tax rate in the fair tax is take it to zero for one reason and one reason only. That is theres not a business on this planet that pays taxes. As you all know, bigs business collect taxes. Consumers pay taxes. Walmart doesnt pay taxes. They collect it from me when i buy and shop at walmart. The case for the fair ta